- [Instructor] Recreating a camera's…real-world movement inside of the computer…is another essential technique…to creating believable visual effects.…Using only footage as our source,…we can use a method called camera tracking…to reverse-engineer the camera's physical movements.…The information we get from camera tracking…can then be used to integrate elements into our shot.…So here's the completed shot that we're going to recreate.…I used camera tracking here to introduce…a bit of ground decay in this drone shot.…So let's switch over to our Start Comp,…and begin to recreate this.…

First of all, let's go ahead and look through our footage,…and you'll notice that this drone has…a fairly wide-angle lens on it.…You can see the horizon is curved,…and that poses a problem for the camera tracker.…It likes as few distortions as possible so,…if we we're to try to solve this camera using this footage,…we're going to get an error.…So we need to first get rid of that distortion.…And so let's Select Layer One.…We'll go over here to Effect,…

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2/9/2018

Learn how to create stunning visual effects with one of the most widely-used and highly-regarded compositing applications on the market—Adobe After Effects CC. In this course, Alan Demafiles dives into the fundamentals you need to start creating visual effects (VFX) with After Effects. Discover how to build accurate masks and keys, use rotoscoping to separate foreground from background, perform motion and camera tracking, and add your own 3D elements to a scene. Learn how to use effects such as particles and noise to create fire, replace the sky, and more. Then dive into the world of virtual reality as Alan explores the immersive VR and 360-degree video features introduced in After Effects CC 2018. In the final project-based chapter, you can reinforce your new skills by putting techniques into practice with a real-world challenge.